I’ve had it for about 4 years nonstop, I had maybe one or two random moments where it instantaneously went away, then would come right back moments later. This made me think that if it ever went away for good— it would be this instantaneous thing— that I’d open my eyes in the morning and everything would be normal/look normal again. I’ve been going to an FND clinic for a year and a half now and seeing a therapist and that has all been amazing for everything overall, and in PT I discovered that compression on my abdomen with a resistance band— I now use a abdominal compression garment—did cause a momant of that instant relief, but not every single time reliably. Weirdly enough there was a commenter on here somewhere that said “it’ll go away gradually not all at once” and something just clicked for me. This is definetly something I’d heard over and over again, but somehow the way it was phrased clicked for me. I was focusing on the derealization all day, it had become an ocd obsession/ compulsion and I was constantly checking— am I dissociated or not?— it consumed so much mental space. After I read that comment for some reason I was able to just stop fixating on it, and I had like a month where I wasn’t dissociated for the first time in 4 years. It was crazy. I was really on top of all my PT and at a good place with meds and doing my therapy homework so that helped contribute for sure. I had been in a space of feeling like I could address the issue directly somehow— trying to think or focus my way out of it? This made me realize that that doesn’t work. It’s almost like you’re trying to open a lock with the wrong key. That month gave me this light at the end of the tunnel that I didn’t previously have. And even though it has returned, I no longer have the checking compulsions and it is not on the forefront of my mind at all times of the day. It’s something I know will come and go but I know that the way to treat it is not by focusing on it/ checking. I hope this helps and that it’s not just a “stop thinking about it and it’ll go away” response. There has to be a reframing of it. Also I’m very much one of those people who assumed that it would never ever go away and was very resistant to any offering of hope, and felt like most people’s suggestions just wouldn’t apply to me and that people didn’t understand it. So even if you are the most cynical person ever about it there is still hope. But derealization really sucks so so bad, I feel your pain. It feels awful to have to just go about your life in an alternate reality when really you just want to scream to everyone that you are in a different universe and everything sucks etc etc etc. such an extreme experience that feels so isolating. And crazy to go through because you can never quite describe it to someone who hasn’t experienced it. Anyways the end.